Quote of the day
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Joseph Sittler

Born: 1904
Died: 1987 (aged 83)
Bio: Joseph Sittler was an American Lutheran minister and theologian who taught at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
Known for:
- Evocations of grace
- Gravity & grace (1986)
- The structure of Christian ethics (1958)
- The Care of the Earth (1962)
- Essays on nature and grace (1972)